1 1 1 EMPTY BRADIO De: The Glenwood Criterion. MAT ,40 TR 00 1 VOLUME VIII. GLENWOOD, SCHUYLER COUNTY, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1877. nil: GL NUMBER 1. 062 CURRENT TOPICS.
THE President and party arrived at Washington on the 25th from their and Southern Brief stoppages were made en route at Lynchburg, Charlottesville, and Gordonsville, Va. The President will visit the Virginia State Fair to be held at Richmond in October. TREAsURY officials say that neither Collector Arthur not Naval-Officer Cornell have forwarded their resignations, as they were requested to do on the day, following the decision of the Cabinet to make a change in the three principal offices in New York City. Collector Arthur had previously indicated to Secretary Sherman that his resignation could be had at any time. If those officials send in their resignations, the President can make new appointments outright, and will not be under the necessity of snspending them from office and sending to the Senate his reasons for so doing.
It is believed at the Department that Collector Authur will resign, but the same opinion does not exist as to Cornell, who is understood to have the sympathy and support of Senator Conkling in his course, who is expected to champion 'his cause in the Senate when the question ,0 AH ton were saved, as was also the Franklin printing-press. None of the Land Office records have been destroyed by fire, but many were seriously damaged by water. The damage to the building is variously estimated at $300,000 to, $500,000) while that growing out of the destruction of models and other valuables belonging to the Patent Office is almost incalculable. THE Fidelity Savings Bank of Chicago suspended on the 24th. Ever since the failures of the State Savings and Merchants', Farmers' and Mechanics', the Fidelity depositors have shown their distrust of its condition by drawing out their deposits as fast as they could do so, and although the bank enforced the 60 days' rule and availed itself of all possible subterfuges to ward off the run upon its coffers, it was finally compelled to close its doors.
The President of the Fidelity was John C. Haines. had at the time of its failure about depositors, representing some $13,000,000 to 8 $14,000,000 of deposits. The assets, it was thought, might pay from 70 to 90 per cent. of this amount.
PRESIDENT HAYES has been inter. viewed since his return from the South, and expresses himself as being highly gratified with the results of his trip. He said: Nothing could be more pleasant than trip throughout. The country is apparently recovering from its extreme business prostration, and the agricultural South seems to have felt the hard times less than others, and I believe the era of good feeling between the North and South is permanent. They are sincere in their expression of community of THE Wisconsin Democratic State Convention, held on 26th, adopted resolutions favoring the remonetization of silver, and opposing forced resumption and the granting of subsidies corporations, etc.
James A. was nominated for Governor. THE New York Republican State Convention, held on the 26th, by a vote of 109 to 295 refused to adopt a resolution approving the policy of President Hayes. Senator Conkling controlled the organization of the Convention, and put himself unmistakably on record as being opposed to the President's Civil, Service policy, and inferentially of his Southern policy. Hard-money tions were adopted, together with a declaration against all Government subsidies.
Two of the Union Pacific train robbers were killed near Buffalo Station, Kansas, on the 26th, and $20,000 of the stolen gold recovered. Sheriff Bardsley, of Hays City, with a posse of soldiers, was on the watch for, the robbers, when these two came into the station. Their outlook and demeanor excited suspicion, and after they had gone the Sheriff and his posse started in pursuit. They were overtaken a few miles from the station, and ordered to surrender, when they attempted to pull their revolvers, but the Sheriff's men were too quick for them and both men tumbled from their saddles. One of the robbers was recognized as Joel Collins, said- to belong to a respectable family at Dallas, Texas.
The other was not recognized. THE Minnesota Republican State Convention, held at St. Paul on the 27th, unreservedly approved the President's Southern and Civil Service policies; favored early resumption of specie payment and remonetization of silver; pledged submission to the popular vote of every proposition entertained for the payment of -State railway bonds and promises of assistance to grasshopper sufferers. The present State officers were renominated. GEN.
GRANT has been interviewed in Scotland by a New York Herald correspondent, and I was at home I should exert my influence, as far as I could exert it, in favor of Hayes's plan of reconciliation. The object aimed at is a noble one, and I hope it will succeed." He also made the prediction that we will have a Republican President in 1880, because the Democracy can not resist its general disposition to kick over the milk-pail after it is filled." 401 A' DELEGATION of Sioux and Arapahoe Indians had an interview with the President at the White House on the 27th. They protest against being removed to the Missouri River, and desire cattle, wagons, farm implements, and schools, that their people may become civilized. Remarks were made by Messrs. Red Cloud, He-Dog, Little-BigMan, Iron-Crow, Yellow Bear- and others, which were, attentively listened to by the President.
THE National Prohibition Conference, which met in New York on the 26th, adopted a Declaration of Principles declaring "That it is neither right nor politic for the State to afford legal protection and sanction to any traffic or system that tends to 'increase crime, to waste National, resources, to. corrupt social habits, and destroy the health and lives of the people." The Conference further resolved to vote for no persons for puhlic office except those who favor these principles." COL. DAVID H. ARMSTONG, of St. Louis, tins been appointed by Governor Phelps United States Senator from Missouri, to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Bogy.
Col. Armstrong 'is a native of Nova Scotia, 65 years old, and for 40 yours a rosident of St. Louis. He has been for many years prominent in State politics, and was Postmaster at St. Louis during Buchanan's Administration.
A TELEGRAM from Benton, 29th, snys the Nez Perces attacked the rifle-pits at Cow Island at sundown on the 23d, making seven charges, fighting until 10 o'clock next morning, when they left, probably for Mill River. ing the night they burned the freight depot, containing 30 tons of Government and 20. tons of private freight. Citizens Weimer and Walker- were seriously wounded in the fight. It is believed the hostiles are making their way to British possessions.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A GENTLEMAN who has recently spent some time with Senator Conkling at his home in Utica, N. expresses the opinion that Conkling does not intend to make any general attack upon the Administration, but he; like many other Senators, will not give the Civil-service order much support. ORSON PRATT a and Joseph Smith, Mormon Apostles, arrived min New York from Europe on the 22d, and immediately left for Salt Lake. HON.
CHRISTIAN WULFEBER, late United States Minister to Ecuador, died at his home in Dubuque, Iowa, on the 22d. He a German by birth. was is understood to be the purpose of Secretary Schurz to speedily' commence a thorough investigation of the Pension Office. Some interesting developments are hinted at. E.
R. HAYT, of New York City, has been appointed Commissioner in place of John Q. who it is said will Indian, be made Consul -General of Canada. GEN. McCLELLAN has accepted the Democratic: nomination for Governor of New Jersey.
A CHICAGO Grand Jury has- indicted Spencer, Gould and Bulkley, of the State! Savings Bank, for the embezzlement of $700,000. All three have absconded. THE Republicans of New Jersey have nominated William A. Newell for Governor. The platform heartily approves the policy of President Hayes, and favors the early resumption of specie payments.
A MASS-MEETING was held at San Antonio, Texas, on the 26th, for the purpose of formally expressing the popular approbation of President Hayes's Southern policy. A DELEGATION appointed, by the Southeastern Indiana Conference of the M. E. Church waited upon Senator Morton at Richmond, on the 25th, and presented him with a series of complimentary ator is said to be perceptibly, tions passed by the Senimproving. HON.
ALEX. H. STEPHENS has declared himself as entirely in accord with President Hayes's Southern policy, and believes that he has done more for the pacification of the country than Mr. Tilden could have done had he been inaugurated. SIDNEY MYERS, President of the defunct Merchants', Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Chicago, has been indicted for the embezzlement of $200,000 in funds of the bank, and held in bonds to the amount of $20,000.
The cash assets of the bank are $56 in greenbacks and $6 in mutilated currency, while a large portion of the securities are of little or no value. LEWIS MYERS, Treasurer of Auglaize County, Ohio, has made a confession that he was a party to the robbery the Treasurer's office, being induced thereto by J. T. Smith, County Auditor, whom he allowed to gag and bind him as heretofore described. Smith has been arrested and a portion of the secreted money recovered.
Other parties are implicated. THE Kemper County, Grand Jury found six indictments for murder in the Chisholm affair, involving about 15 persons, who will be arraigned for the trial at the next term, in March. THE late officers of the Protection Life Insurance Company of Chicago have been indicted by the Grand Jury for misappropriation of funds. President Hilliard Secretary Edwards were released on bail, but Cashier Sawyer was unable to obtain a bondsman and so went to W. M.
UPTON, of Oregon, has been commissioned as Second Comptroller of the Treasury. DR. R. T. TRALL, author of numerous works upon hydropathy, died of pneumonia on the 23d ult.
GEN. GRANT was tendered a banquet by the Mayor and Corporation of Sheffield, England, on the evening of the 27th. On the following day he visited Shakspeare's birthplace and tomb at Stratford on -Avon, where he was also received with distinguished honors. THE civil suit brought against William McKee to recover the liability imposed by the law for violation of the revenue law, has been decided in favor of defendant, the Court (Judge Miller) holding that the defendant had already been convicted and punished for the same offense, which is an effectual bar to any further prosecution. THE President and Secretary of the Interior have decided to dismiss the charges against Gov.
Axtell, of New Mexico, as vague and unsupported by proof. TELEGRAPHIC NOTES. Mrs. James St. Clair and her two children, of Cleveland, 0., were poisoned, on the 24th, by eating toadstools in mistake for The two children and the mother was not expected to recover." The attempt to raise by voluntary subseription throughout Mexico sum sufficient to pay the American debt has proved a failure, only $10,000 having been subseribed at last report.
The latest advices from Calcutta bring the grateful intelligence that plenteous rains have fallen in the Worst famine districts of India and that every thing in consequence presents a brighter outlook. One hundred and forty deaths from yellow occurred at Vera Cruz, Mexico, during August. Forty new cases of yellow fever were reported at Fernandina, Florida, on the 24th. The following is the estimated damage by the late cyclone around Galveston, Texas: The Government works in Bolivar Channel, including a portion of the fleet, the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad, loss of track and bay bridge, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, loss of track and bridge, cotton presses, uncompleted buildings in the city, bathhouses on the beach, twenty small schooners capsized, loss private buildInge and property, $10,000. The last steamer from Samos to San Francisco brought Intelligence of another Insurrection in that island.
The Steinberger purty in now the dominant faction. The estimated damage in and around Galveston by the recent eyelone, in over $150,000. The First National Bank of Cortland, N. was bonds recently and other robbed of a pickago containing securities at $200,000, belonging to private individuals. No clew to the thief.
Anderson Shiflet was hanged at Har- risonburg, Rockingham County, on the 25th, for the murder of David G. Lawson, in March, 1875. The evidence upon which Shifllet was convicted implicated several others in the crime, the instigator of which was Lawson's wife. She was also convicted and is sentenced to be hanged on Oct. 30.
Silas, Morris, Mrs. Lawson's brother, who employed Shifflet to do the killing, was also convicted and sentenced to be hanged on the same day as Shiftlet, but was respited by the Governor for one month. A Wilkesbaire (Pa.) dispatch of the 25th says that the striking miners have finally agreed to accept the compromise offered by the mine owners and work will probably be resumed immediately throughout all that region: The sixth annual convention of the National Agricultural Congress met at Chidago on the 25th. The schooner Ocean Wave, from New Orleans to Galveston, laden with coal, foundered on the 16th, and all on board-Capt. McIntire and seven men-were lost.
Near Roseville, on the morning of the 26th, the dead bodies of Abner James and his wife were found by the roadside, locked in each other's arms, the wife tightly grasping al revolver in her left hand. The husband had a bullet hole in his breast and the wife one in the temple and one in the back. James was an undertaker, doing business in Zanesville. After considerable domestic trouble, it is supposed that Mrs. James finally left her husband to go home to her mother's, who lives near Roseville.
The husband apparently followed her, and when within a short distance of her mother's house the fatal tragedy was enacted. It is supposed that James first shot his wife in the back and then shot himself in the breast; and that Mrs. James, not dying immediately, succeeded in getting hold of the pistol and ending her sufferings by another shot through the brain. The Indians have murdered all the white inhabitants, 35 in number, in Cook's Canyon and on White's ranch, between Stver City and Fort Yuma. 0 The South Pacific coast; has been shaken up by another earthquake.
A party of cattle-thieves, 12 in number, who had run off a large herd of cattle from the range in Western Colorado, were overtaken in Northwestern Kansas by a party of 15 rangers and every one of them killed. This was on the 21st of August. On the 14th of September the unburied bodies of the 12 men wore discovered by some passers-by, which was the first intimation given to the public of the tragic affair. Nat Pierce, who was implicated in killing Story and Kilpatrick, in Pickens County, last August, was taken from Carrollton Jail on the night of the 26th, by about 20 masked men, and hanged. The St.
Elmo: (111.) assassin has finally been captured, and fully identifled. His name is Frank Nichols, and his home was at Lovington, Moultrie County, where he was captured. lie was taken to the Jail at Vandalia. Providence, R. was visited by a destructive fire on the night of the 27th, which swept away several valuable business blocks.
Losses about $750,000, mostly insured. By the explosion of a locomotive on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, at Rocky Hill Station, Warren County, on the 26th, Chas. Wilson, engineer, Thos. MeRae, fireman, and McCormick, brakeman, were instantly killed and a number of others injured. There were a number of valuable horses on the train, two of which were killed and the rest injured.
One of the horses killed was Sazerac. The new management of the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company find that in order to keep the concern going it will be necessary for policy -holders to release 40 per cent. of the reserve liabilities; otherwise it will be placed in the hands of 1l receiver. A fire occurred at a farm-house in St. Gregoire, P.
the night of the 27th, by which eight children lost their lives. Five were burned to death and three suffocated. Alice Richards, a servant, aged 17, was fatally burned at Bridgeport, while kindling the fire with kerosene. Bill Hartman, the leader of a gang of riotous strikers on the Kansas Central Narraw -gauge Railroad at Circleville, Jackson County, Kansas, was shot and killed on the 29th by a Sheriff's posse under command of Capt. W.
S. Tough, ex-United States Marshal. The shooting of their leader exasperated the strikers to the highest pitch, and they. made threats of hanging Capt. Tough.
The latter was subsequently arrested and held to bail in the sum of $10,000. John Thompson was hanged at Seatthe, Washington Territory, on the 28th for the murder of Solomon Baxter, last February. The business portion of the village of Putnam, Windham County, was burned on the 30th. Loss about $200,000, mostly insured. WAR NEWS.
The Russian account of the recent fighting at Biela claims that at the close of the engagement they held all their positions. Three infantry divisions of the Russian Guard reached. Biela on the 25th, one of which will remain in that neighborhood while the others will be dispatched to Plevnit. It is stated that the Russian and Roumanian losses before Plevna exceed 25,000 killed and wounded. The Turks have sueceded in revictualing the garrison at Plevna.
Dispatches of the 27th state that Mehemet All, whose forces recently met with disastrous repulse by those of the Czarowitch, has commenced 11 retreat to his former position on the Kara-Lom. A-Russian official dispatch admits the further reinforcement of Plevna by 10,000 Turks with artillery from Sofia, who broke through Russian cavalry posted to intercept A Bucharest dispatch says the Roumanians have failed in their attempt to capture the Grivitza redout at Plevna, having suffered severely. A telegram from Erzeroum reports that hostilities are imminent in that quarter. IN response to written orders, the expressmen of Meriden, one day last week were sent in great haste to hotel to take the trunk of L. E.
Phant to the depot. The landlord took the joke kindly at first, as the number of Mr. E. L. Phant's was the same as that of a dark closet, but the Republican that after a dozen or so had called he began to lose patience, and hackman came to get Mr.
and Mrs. L. E. Phant, trunk and children, ho could stand it no longer and burst out with Elephant be blessed," but that was not the word he used. MR.
MONTGOMERY SwAnS, the wealthy young Bostonian, who was married the other day to Miss Chonte, gave his bride ba wedding present of a residence. costing $110,000, WIT AND WISDOM WE notice that the cats of the most pious families break into fireworks most on Sunday nights. A MEMPHIS negro bought a coat for $5 on credit, and sold it for 50 cents in cash, so as to go to a circus. A SUPERIOR CITY saloon-keeper has named his resort Nowhere," so that when home late nights, and their wives wanted to know where they had been, they. could 1 safely tell them the truth.
A HUSBAND who only opposed his wife's ill-humor by silence, was told by a friend that he was afraid of his wife." It is not she I am afraid of," replied the husband, "it's the noise." TIE girl with the seal-skin sacque looks complacently upon the approach of winter, while the maiden without one of these garments is engaged in circulating the report that they are to be extremely unfashionable this year. "IT is curious, doctor, that every time I smoke after dinner I have' something dazzling in 1 my eyes. What can you do for that?" "Eh!" said the doctor with a smile, "don't smoke." The patient was nonpulsed. He hadn't thought of that. SHE had just returned from a visit to a married couple, and as she threw her hat on the sofa, she turned up her nose, put on a look of disgust, and said: there is any thing on this earth that is hateful, it is to see married people kissing, and hugging, and gushing before folks," Her little brother crawled out from under the table, where he had been hunting a stray marble, and addressing his sister, said: "You and George is all the time kissing each other before me; but you isn't married yet, and then I suppose I'm too small to be folks." That little boy told another little boy next morning that it wasn't always a sign when ear berned that somebody was stalking about A Charming Snake Story.
Mr. Sam, Gentry, living over the line in the adjacent county of Stewart, has in his possession a purse made of the tanned skin of a rattlesnake, which he caught and killed under the following circumstances: In going along a path in a wheat-field he came across the snake lying at full length before him, manifesting no disposition to retreat or attack, and apparently waiting for something to turn up. Mr. Gentry, who is a practical mesmerist, concluded to try his powers upon the dangerous reptile before him, reasoning that if a snake can magnetize a bird, why can not man, endowed with greater mesmeric power, put a snake under the power of his will? Taking his position at the side of the dangerous but quiet subject, he made quick undulatory passes with both hands from the head to the tail, and in a few moments had the satisfaction of seeing the snake completely within his power -charmed, magnetized, mesmerized, whichever it may be properly called. Placing one of his hands in front of his subject, it immediately crawled on his right arm, then over his neck to the left, Gentry in the meantime continuing the mesmeric passes.
He then carried the rattlesnake home on his arm, when, under his direction, one of his sons opened its mouth and unfolded its fangs, the snake quietly submitting to the novel operation. After fully satisfying himself and a number of his neighbors, who were present and witnessed the affair, of the truth of his theory, he cast the snake to the ground, killed it, stripped off' the skin, tanned it, and made himself a purse, which he has ever since carried about his person-Trigg County (Ky.) Democrat. A Lady in Prison. Mysterious is a woman's ways. Several weeks ago, a lady, with a bright face and pleasing manner, elegantly dressed, arrived in Columbus, and after breakfasting at a hotel, went to a station-house to apply for a lodging.
She was given a cell on the first floor, with the privilege of the prison, and she immediately began to brighten the lives of the poor prisoners. She made a decisive onslaught on the cockroaches and beg-bugs by scrubbing her cell again and again. When the woodwork was as neat as soap and water could make it, she hung some pictures on the wall, and every day she has a bouquet of fresh flowers. She has books in her cell, and sometimes she takes a short walk, but whenever there is any thing to be done for any prisoner, she is ready to do it. When a drunken woman is brought in and laid on the floor, strange lady busies herself during the night in bathing the poor creature's head, rubbing her hands and feet, and bringing her to her better self.
The expense to the city of keeping this ministering angel in its prison is not great. She lives on bread and water. The Sherman Family. In the Sherman family there were eleven children, dependent upon the meager income of their father's legal practice. A young man named Ewing, who had worked his way through college, and had come from the Salt Works, where some money had been earned, settled in Mansfield to practice law.
His ability was recognized by Mr. Sherman, who assisted him, and when upon the bench turned ever much employment to Ewing. Upon the death of the father the young lawyer had become Hon. Thomas Ewing, and for kindness received wished to make some substantial return. He resolved to take one of the boys and give him a thorough education.
At a stated time he visited the family, when the five lads were brought before bim. He turned to the eldest sister, maying "Which one had I better replied, "There is in the smartest." The suggestion was received, and the boy has become the General of the United States Army. -Mansfield (Ohio) Cor. Newburgh Journal. OF as a Taco against THE DEAD BANDITS.
Particulars of the Killing of Two of the Union Pacific Train Robbers-Recovery of $25,000. to the Kansas City From the time the robbers crossed the Platte River last Wednesday; until they appeared Young's ranch, on the Republican River, on the 23d no definite or reliable clew was found or discovered. The busy telegraph had not been idle, however. On Monday last Sheriff Bardsley, of Ellis County, started from Hays City, on th Kansas Pacific Railway, with at squad of 10 cavalrymen from Fort Hays. They were accompanied by Sheriff Bradley, from North Platte, and a Denver detective.
The detachment numbered in all thirteen men. They went westward by a special train orflered by Gen. Pope, and made their headquarters it Buffalo Station, on the Kansas Pacific. BUFFALO STATION, where the capture was made, is a lonely water-tank station, out in the center of the buffalo grotinds. It is 60 miles west of Hays City, and is in the center of the most dreary solitude that could be imagined.
A water-tank and a wind-mill, the house of the section men, a store, telegraph office, station agent and a side-track are all that are included in Buffalo Station. Near by is a ravine where the buffalo loved to congregate for several years after the station had been established. In this ravine Sheriff' Bardsley and his posse of cavalrymen were encamped when the chief of the train robbers and a single adherent rode up to the lonely station. This was about 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning, the 26th instant. THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE.
They rode in from the nofth, coming in boldly over a high ridge of open prairie. They led between them a pony loaded down with a load of something which- while it was not -seemed to tax the strength of the pony to it. The men were dusty and travelstained. They appeared to be and might have been taken for two Texas cow boys" out on a hunt for cattle or on their way to join a herd. Had they rode straight across the track and continued their journey without stopping no suspicion would have been aroused; but they were led instinctively to their death.
They rode their jaded horses to the shady side of the principal building of the station, and one of the two dismounted, leaving his partner in charge of the horses and the pack pony. The man left in charge of the horses said they were Texas cattle men on their way home, and inquired the way to Fort Larned. The dismounted man walked up to the station agent and inquired the way to Thompson's store. The building was pointed out to him, but as he stood conversing he took out his pocket handkerchief, which revealed a letter in his pocket upon which was piainly visible the superscription JOEL COLLINS." This was the name of the leader of the Union Pacific train robbers, and the brands upon the horses assured the station agent that these were the men wanted by the Sheriff and his soldiers, encamped a few hundred yards away. Sheriff Bardsley was notified at once, and he came up to the station and examined the horses and made other satisfactory observations.
He conversed with the robber chief for some time, and asked many questions, which were freely answered. They walked together to the station and took a drink, and conversed upon inconsequential topics. Collins made no effort to conceal his real name. He had no suspicion whatever that the telegraph had given his name and description at that little station in the middle of the buffalo plains. Bardsley then left his prey and started back to the camp of the soldiers, who were under the command of Lieutenant Allen, and ordered them to saddle up and follow him, and he would bring back the Texans.
In the meantime the two horsemen, with their heavily burdened pony, had started out on the open plains southward. Sheriff Bardsley and his posse started out in pursuit. THE DEATH. When Collins and his companion saw the Sheriff and his blue-coated posse of cavalry appear on their trail, they manifested no excitement. They did not even attempt to run.
On the contrary, they rode on leisurely on the Texas trail until Sheriff Bardsley rode up and halted them. Even then they gave no sign of trepidation or excitement. Collins looked at Bardsley the coolest effrontery and demanded his business. Said Sheriff Bardsley: "I have a description of some trainrobbers which answers well to your appearance. I want you and your partner to return with me to the station.
You need fear nothing if you are innocent, and if you are the men I want, then Lam $10,000 better off'. Please come back to the station, gentlemen." "You are mistaken in your men, gentlemen," replied Collins, laughingly; "but, of course, there is objest. We will go back and have the mistake explained. We are Texas boys going home--that's all." Then they turned their tired horses back toward the station, As they turned they exchanged a few brief words which were undistinguishable even to the nearest trooper. They rode a few hundred yards over the level plain towards the solitary station, when suddenly the leader, Joel Collins, broke the silence.
Turning to his companion, he said: Pard, if we are to die, we might as well die game." Then he drew his revolver. His partner followed his example, but before either could fire the troopers fired a volley into them, and they fell from their horses riddled with bullets. The robbers died instantly and were taken to the station for burial, but were aftertorwards taken to Ellis Station, where an inquest was held and where the bodies were buried. THE BOOTY. About $25,000 in $20 gold pieces were found upon the pack pony.
The coins were of the mintage of 1877. This wealth weighed nearly 100 pounds, and Was tied up in a pair of old trowsers with the lower ends tied together and thrown the potty' back, with blankets all. There wets no paover pers found upon the bodies, so that the name of the second party is still a mystery. A small piece of paper was found on Collins's body, upon which was written a poetical effusion by a lady, dedicated to Joel Collins. The antecedents of Collins are not definitely known, but it is said that he hails from Dallas, where he is connected with a good family, and has made a good reputation.
Six or seven of robbers are reported to have crossed the Kansas Pacific west Sheridan Station, and a large posse of men are in pursuit. It is said every one will be captured before they can cross the Arkansas River. This is of the best arranged and most effective captures of train robbers ever made in the West. There is no trouble and expense of trial in this case. The Art of Listening.
The art of listening is 9 delicate and difficult art, and one that is seldom practiced. It is delicate because it demands, if not sympathy, a show of sympathy, and continuous attention, as well as an air of interest. It is difficult because self-assertion is natural, and a state of passiveness without manifestation of weariness is irksome to maintain. On account of its delicacy and difficulty, not less than from want of knowing how to manage it, it is the rare art in society. The few listeners that understand listening are invariably liked, even admired, and not infrequently charm the talkers to Whom they give ear.
The nice listener is pretty stite to name for intellect, culture, wit, readiness- for any sort of quality, indeed, which he or she does not reveal and may not possess. The person fond of talking usually endows the person who listens with what ever attributes he thinks he has himself; and his good opinion of the listener grows steadily until sometimes it amounts to positive worship. It is not enough to listen merely in a negative manner; for this appears like resignation, like silent suffering, like uncomplaining martyrdom, and, besides, may be mistaken for stupidity, which is fatal to the listener's hope and object. One may be as stupid as an owl in society, but his listeners must disguise his stupidity, if they would be accepted; and, above all, never indicate or intimate to any body else that the speaker has any possibility of stupidity. We can be dullness and commonplace itself with impunity, provided we seem to think well of our Harper's Bazar.
It's Our Baby." T. J. Wolfe is not an old man; he is not a young man; but he is a married man, and has been for several years. He lives one mile west of Westport, but 110 children climb upon his knees when the day declineth and twist the cat's tail and listen to big stories. Yesterday morning he went to the fodder shock to get provender, for his milch cow, and as to pull the ears he discovered midway in the shock what he at first took to be a horse blanket.
He picked it up and unrolled it, and discovered two rolls of red flannel. He unraveled these and there lay a girl baby about four or five hours old. He took it into the house and showed it to Mrs. W. She remarked that it had blue eyes; and then she looked up at her husband's to satisfy herself that she was not mistaken.
Wolfe held up his hand and said he would swear, but the good wife didn't require it. So this new foundling was encompassed about with new linen, and Mrs. W. sat down to make baby clothes, while Wolfe got out on the floor and danced and sung and hit his wife on the back of the head and "hollored." "Bully for us. It's our young one, isn't it, Mrs.
Wolfe? And didn't cost a cent, did it? Hurrah!" And then he went out and hitched up two yoke of oxen and drove all around the house, yelling like an Indian. The little strunger has a good home, and may yet be the queen of its realm. Here's luck to the baby. (Wis.) Witness. A Kentucky Monster.
A letter from Warren County, Kentucky, to the Franklin Putriot says: "This child, a girl, was four years of age on the 20th day of last March. She weighs 100. pounds, measures 18 inches neross the chest, and is four feet eight and one-halt inches high. There is a thick growth of hair covering her entire body, while her face is covered with whiskers, including a mustache, Up to about 18 months ago a healthy girl. At about that time her body became very hot and was covered with a heavy perspiration, lasting for several days.
The odor occasioned by the perspiration was very offensive, and within 15 minutes after being cleanly dressed her body and clothes would become saturated if by some black-colored liquid. When the perspiration ceased the hair began growing, only leaving the soles of her feet and the palms of her hands bare. Her voice attained a remarkable depth, sounding as though it came from the inside of a barrel, Her strength is astonishing. She can carry, her 10-year-old sister under her arm with apparent ease, mother states that the child actually does not know her own strength. The statements herein made are strictly true, and, if necessary, the tostimony of the child's parents and many people- living in the neighborhood can be produced for corroboration.
HERE AND THERE. comes up before that body. A LETTER from Gen. Sturgis, dated Sept. 16, was received at Fort Ellis, on the 22d, giving some additional particulars of his fight oh Musselshell on the 13th.
After the fight 20 dead Indians were discovered, and he believes still others in were killed and many wounded. His own losses were four soldiers killed and 12 wounded, besides a. number of citizens and scouts not enumerated. News from Fort Stambaugh to the 24th says that the various Commands are thoroughly scouting the country, but Joseph had so far successfully eluded pursuit. An important manifesto by M.
Thiers, addressed to the electors of the Ninth Arrondissement, was found among the papers of the deceased statesman and has been published. It justifies the proceedings of the late Chamber of Deputies and praises its moderation and wisdom; explains the preference for a Republican Government, founded on the conviction that a monarchy is impossible; describes the existing situation as intolerable, there being a Republican Constitution and an anti-Republican Administration; strongly protests against the crisis of the 16th of May, and proclaims the sovereignty of the Nation and its power so rebuke the recent dissolution. To resist its power will be usurpation. It demands freedom of elections and freedom of the press. Thiers's principles are thus summarized: Sovereignty of the National Republic, Law, Liberty and Peace." Lal tor Sho ten the ROE SAN DOMINGO is undergoing the throes of another revolution, of which ex-President Gonzales is the leader.
The insurgents have captured the seaport of Monte Christi, and the whole republic is in a state of profound excitement. Mr. SEWARD, Assistant Secretary of State, 1 has recently been interviewed in reference to our relations with Mexico. He is represented as saying that this Government is becoming more and more satisfied as to the good intentions of President Diaz; that all of his efforts have been steadily directed toward the suppression of the border troubles, and it can be no longer doubted that he means to out in good faith all his promises -provided he is able to accomplish what he has undertaken. About this Mr.
Seward has his doubts. 'He thinks that there is great danger of the Northern States of Mexico revolting against Diaz. Two of his Generals under Benavides, his Commander-in-Chief, have alreadv resigned on account of the surrender of Mexican citizens for crimes not included in the extradition treaty. This looks to Mr. Seward as the beginning of a movement in the border States against Diaz, and concerning this he made the very important statement that if Diaz made an honest effort to stop the border out.
rages, and the border ruffians and those who sympathized with them begin a rebellion against him, the United States will feel in duty bound to assist him in putting down the rebellion. The only fear Mr. Seward had was that Diaz might not be able to sustain himself until the United States could come to His assistance. In that event the State of Texas would protect herself. She was organizing State troops, and will soon be in a condition to protect her border with the assistance of the United States troops.
The United States, Mr. 'Seward said, would under" no circumstances make war on Mexico. All this Government will do is to stop the border raids. If the Government of Mexico makes an honest effort to stop them, and is unable to contend with the outlaws and rebels of the border the United States will assist her. If the Mexican Government does not make the effort, the United States, will do it herself.
In doing this she makes no war on Mexico, but simply protects her own citizens. A FIRE broke out in the west wing of the Patent Office at Washington, about noon on the 24th, supposed to have originated from spontaneous combustion among 1. lot of chemical material stored in the attic. It sproad rapidly, extending throughout the upper floors of nearly the entire building, destroying a large, umber of valuable models stored therein. Fortunately nearly all the specifications of the original drawings of the Patent Office are safe, and from these models can be reproduced if necessary.
The original copy of the Declaration of Independence and the relics of Gen. Washing- A BEE tree near Waldo, contained eight feet in length of solid comb, the hollow ranging from six to nine inches in diameter. ELIJAH A. MORSE, of Morse Bros. the Rising Sun Stove Polish" man, has been nominated for LieutenantGovernor of Massachusetts by the Tem perance party.
LOPEZ, trial in FRANCISCO on Corpus Christi, Texas, was set upon in court and choked almost to death by the mother of the man whom he was accused of murdering. ONE pound of rice goes as far to satisfying hunger and in nutriment as eight pounds of flour; and two pounds of potatoes are equal to one pound of flour. E. S. JAFFRAY, the well known drygoods merchant of New York, goes and comes from his summer residence at Irvington, on the Hudson, every day in a steam yacht, which is one of the fastest ever built.
AN old army engineer recommends for the mosquitoes an application to the person of a mixture of coal-tar oil five ounces, glycerine two ounces, and oil of pennyroyal one ounce. It washes oft readily, and is not disagreeable. THE owners of the Mammoth Cave now search visitors, to be sure that no instruments are taken in by which the bearings of the cavity can be ascertained. They fear that an entrance may be made on somebody else's land, and the profit of the cave be thus divided. A LIFE-SIZE bust of Pongo, the London gorilla, has been made by a Piccadilly firm.
The London Daily News commends it, but thinks the full rendering of the soft and playful expression of the eye, which is so remarkable in Master Pongo, is probably beyond the reach of the modeler's art. Two English barristers, William Arnold Lewis and Noel Paterson, with their three guides, lost their lives in the Alps recently. They fell a distance of several thousand feet, the apparent cause of the fall being that an overhanging snow cornice had given way as the party passed over it. THE old physicians used to insist upon the dangers of plunging into the water for a swim when the system is heated and the perspiration free. At present the best English doctors, such as Fordyce, Currie, Parsons, and Sir Charles Blagdon, say that then is the very best possible time to take a bath.
A CORRESPONDENT from the seat of war on the Russian side, writes to a London paper: a Turk in a ditch, give him a gun, a sackful of cartridges, a loaf of bread, and a jug of water, and he will remain there a week or a month under the most dreadful artillery fire that can be directed against him, without flinching." IN the Royal Academy, London, this year, is an admired illustration of a somewhat ancient event, in which a waste of waters, a dove and a piece of timber are the principal features. This remark of a lady bystander was overheard: 64 How I dislike these perplexing pictures in which one never knows what is intended! A pigeon in a tree by the seaside suggests ahsolutely nothing." ONE hundred little brown jugs, each about the size of a pint cup, and having a slit in the top to admit money, were distributed to members of a Baltimore Methodist congregation. Money was collected in them, and one evening, after a supper, the jugs were returned rattling with coin. When all was ready the jugs were broken one by one and the contents counted. Prizes of Bibles were awarded to those who had been the most successful in their collections.
A BARNESVILLE (W. Va.) signer 0 the Murphy pledge went to. Wheeling a few days, and after transacting his business, and while waiting for the train to take him home, was induced to forget his pledge to such an extent as to get drunk. He fell asleep as soon as the cars started, and the conductor had no easy task to awaken him. After he was aroused, instead of presenting his ticket he handed the Conductor his Murphy pledge.
The Conductor punched the pledge and wrote on it, one drunk." 'The Barnesville gentleman's dismay may be imagined when the next day he exhibited his pledge to prove he was a Murphy man. MR. ALFRED SIMPSON has given an interesting account of the manners and customs of the Zaporas of Ecuador, The mode of courtship presents some suggestive features. The enamored swain goes to the woods and hunts game; when he has procured it, he presents it to the maiden of his choice. This constitutes the proposal, if she accepts, she cooks the meat.
Hence, before entering upon the bonds of matrimony, the Zapora suitor has the great advantage over civilized wooers of being assured 88 to the lady's capacity for preparing a square meal; and doubtless there is a diminished probability that; afterward the fat will be in the fire. On the other hand, the Zaporiness is favored with some foreknowledge as to her spouse's ability to keep the larder supplied. ANNA L. BUCKLEY of Macon, was arranging a beautiful floral design as a tribute to be laid upon the casketcontaining a departed friend. In se-onl lecting the leaves from the plant euphrobia, the stem producing them was broken, when a drop of its sap was spattered into her eye.
Inflammation immediately followed, which extended down her cheek, and her hands, which wiped away the tears from her eye, were also similarily affected. The euphrobin or lace plant is known to botanists as one of the herbaceous plan's, and is distinguished by the acrid and often powerfully poisonous property of its milky juice, though its leaves are much admired and the plant is a popular one with florists. It should be handled with the greatest care. WHO DOUR norses..
